Latin American Music Seminar
14 May 2022, 10.15am - 4.30pm
Institute of Modern Languages Research
Seminar
Woburn Suite, G22/26, Ground Floor, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU
This seminar is generously supported by the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS)
The Latin American Music Seminar is a British forum for Latin American music research that meets twice yearly. Please contact Henry Stobart (h.stobart@rhul.ac.uk) if you would like to be included on the mailing list, or if you wish to offer a presentation or to perform at a future seminar.
Programme
10.15 Coffee/arrival
10.40 Welcome
10.45 Christina Homer (Open University), “Vessel flute with biomorphic aspect": interpreting west Mexican archaeological musical artefacts
11.30 Rachell Sanchez Rivera (University of Cambridge), Counterarchiving Coloniality in the Americas: Rita Indiana’s ‘After School’
12.15 Sue Miller (Leeds Becket University), In Dialogue with the Past: Reflections on a Practice Research-based Investigation into Mid-Twentieth-Century Recording Techniques and Aesthetics in Charanga Music Performance and Production
1.00 Lunch (salteña – Bolivian pasty)
2.15 Miles Bainbridge (performer), The Sikuris of Conima, Peru: Perspectives fresh from the Fiesta de la Cruz (3 May) – with performance with Sikuris sin Fronteras and students from Royal Holloway
3.00 Simon Cook (performer), The Latin American afterlife of the Ophicleide – informal talk/demonstration
3.45 Live Music - from Cuba, Brazil and the Andes – with social dancing
4.30 Event closes
If you wish to learn more about the Latin American Music Seminar, you can visit its webpage: https://ilas.sas.ac.uk/events/seminar-series/latin-american-music-seminar
Registration Fee £10
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